The pre-Christmas appointment of exchanging greetings with the press becomes, for the mayor of Messina Federico Basileits councilors and its subsidiaries, the opportunity to make a mid-term budgettwo and a half years after taking office.
“Today there is an idea of the city – said Basile -. In the last 20 years we have always worked with survival in mind, today this is not the case. We have created services, I think of 60% differentiatedI think about new school buseswe got a city back on track in just 5-6 years, that is, nothing. We gave up the accounts are in order. We have a plan sports infrastructurebecause we have a municipality and we have 47 small municipalities throughout the territory. We are trying to use a criterion to make the entire territory livable.”
2025 already sees important events: “In January we will sign the protocol with RFI for the Gazzi workshops – confirmed the mayor -, we will take back 55 thousand square meters that we have linked to the entire Piau project, and in this sense the reclamation of Maregrosso is important to finally make it usable the downtown beach. This area can represent the future of the city. We are doing a lot, we are doing well.”
And 2025 could also be the year of the Bridge: “The latest legislative initiative of our deputy Gallo – Basile recalled – goes beyond the yes and no to the Bridge and requires that the works needed by the city be carried out first. There is unexpressed potential, but we must all work together on this, from the business world to the trade union world. May 2025 continue to be a harbinger of important administrative actions, from the single hole to the Strait Bridge, there is a lot to do in between.”